Re: [ga] Call for a Working Group

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Roberto and all remaining assembly members,

  At least 18 congresspersons have written me or members of
our organization in the past few weeks regarding Alt Roots.
So I am finding your comment along these lines a bit
difficult to understand.

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> It is not clear to me what exactly the scope of this working group should
> be.
>
> It will be interesting to discuss (once again!) about the alternate roots,
> and the relationship between ICANN and them, but I don't think that we will
> go anywhere.
> Moreover, from the few posts so far, it is not clear to me whether this WG
> should address the unique vs. multiple roots, or should address the point
> raised by Kendall below:
>
> >
> >I still feel that there needs to be an officially recognition of the
> >alternative roots by ICANN.
>
> This is a different thing, and does not mean "alternative roots" but "get
> everybody in the unique root". BTW, does this include NameSpace as well?
>
> >One day they are going to wake up and find that
> >they are suddenly the minority. In case you haven't noticed: the media,
> >Congress, and the Net users around the world are not particularly thrilled
> >with ICANN at the moment. The only ones who seem happy are Afilias, Joe
> >Sims, Louis Touton, Michael Roberts, and VeriSign.
>
> If ICANN will become minority, that means that alternate roots are the
> majority and therefore I don't see the point in further discussing.
> Browser will point to the alternate roots, and that's it, everybody happy.
>
> But I don't see this coming in the near future.
> If Congress (or Net users around the world, or whoever else) is not in love
> with ICANN, it does not mean that it is in love with the alternate roots. In
> fact, I suspect that very few Congresspersons, if any at all, has ever heard
> about alternate roots.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
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